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A mission almost 30 years in the making has just profoundly changed what we know about cometsIt's very possible that carbon-carrying comets that smashed into Earth long ago brought the very ingredients needed for life to arise.
Scientists simply can't explain Pluto's 3 biggest surface featuresThe first images from New Horizons' history-making flyby of Pluto revealed a moon-cluttered system that's more complex than anyone knew.
NASA's Pluto mission is already surprising scientists with what it has foundNASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto and though we've only seen a small trickle of data, the findings are alre...
First false-color images from NASA show off Pluto's complex surface featuresImages have been flowing in since NASA's epic New Horizons Pluto flyby, and the latest image released shows an exaggerated color map of Plu...
11 facts about NASA's epic nuclear-powered mission to PlutoOn July 14, an epic once-in-a-lifetime event will take place: NASA will fly their spacecraft, New Horizons, by Pluto.
Plan to build a machine larger than Large Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile underground loop full of supercooled magnets, thirty-foot particle detectors, and miles of accelerat...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to put a billion people on MarsIf we want anything close to the industry and infrastructure that's on Earth, we're going to need a huge labor force, Musk said in an inter...
What it takes to win a one-way ticket to MarsEarlier this year, John Roche, one of the 100 finalists vying for a one-way ticket to Mars, spoke out against the company, Mars One.